Cheaper data plan, rural connectivity and increasing demand for local, vernacular content has created immense potential for the growth of Media and Content platforms in India. Media and Entertainment industry is expected to grow to a total market size of $50-60bn by 2030 driven by increasing consumption of short-form videos, video and audio streaming, and gaming.

Investment Thesis

Audio and video platforms focusing on bite-sized, local and vernacular content engaging regional audience.
Infrastructure and analytics platforms facilitating creation, distribution and monetization of content.
Content to commerce platforms making shopping an interactive experience.
New-age social interaction platform catering to the needs of GenZ and Alpha.
Immersive and interactive experiences in metaverses and ownership of digital assets via NFTs.

The Disruptors We Support

Media

Hood is a pseudonymous social networking platform which allows users to express themselves by remaining true to their authentic self.

Invested in 2021

Founders

Jasveer Singh and Abhishek Asthana

Other Investors

3one4 Capital, Roots Ventures, and 9Unicorns

Reason of Investment

With increasing need among GenZs to not be associated with labels and be true to their identity, a pseudonymous platform like Zorro was the need of the hour. Experienced executioner Jasveer and social media influencer Gabbar Singh (Abhishek) were keen to provide this with ultimate user delight.

Media

Kala Gato buys and grows high potential mobile app businesses with no fees and quick processes.

Invested in 2021

Founders

Aman Kumar and Himanshu Dhakar

Other Investors

9Unicorns, SOSV, Village Global and Venture Catalysts

Reason of Investment

With millions of users interacting across thousands of unfunded apps, that eventually couldn’t grow, it was important that there was a mechanism to consolidate them to provide better user experience and monetization. Aman from Kala Gato was pioneer in recognizing this and building for this segment.

Media

Oyela is a social commerce company, solving the problem of merchandising, payments and logistics for fashion influencers who want to sell merchandise to their followers.

Invested in 2021

Founders

Rahul Gope and Anjan K Patel

Other Investors

Prime Venture Partners and Good Capital

Reason of Investment

With an increasing sense of community and preference for authentic styles that match their personalities, GenZ tends to follow community influencers more than brand icons. Oyela is remarkably capitalising on this trend to turn GenZ fashion influencers to entrepreneurs.

Media

Shuru will essentially help people with being able to connect locally with ease by being a location-based community platform where creators can go live and host local events, have private or publicmeetings, and allow users to connect through a call link.

Invested in 2022

Founders

Harsh Chabbra and Mayank Bhangadia

Other Investors

Hauz Khas Ventures

Reason of Investment

Shuru has a proven team of 2x founders with domain expertise, and understanding of building teams. Moreover there isn't any clear competitor who offers the core feature of what shuru is planning to provide.

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What They Say About Us

Eximius has been a great partner for us from Day 0 of Skydo. Right from the investment process where they were fully transparent and helped us in shaping our ideas and plans, to early days of setting up the company and team where they've been proactively helping us with relevant connections and hiring.

Movin Jain

Co-Founder

Skydo

As a Founder, I have had great experience with Eximius team. Apart from the capital, we got access to the network and connects which is super helpful for a growing startup. Pearl is just a call away when we need her.

Parth Chadha

Co-Founder

Stan

Since the day we have pitched our idea to Pearl, she believed in our idea and was were very quick in taking decision to invest. Her team has worked with us in all the aspects, from hiring needs to discuss ideas on the product.

Manikanta Nikhil Kotla

Co-Founder

iTribe

Eximius has been a great choice for us. The team is extremely helpful in terms of hiring, global network, product decisions, etc. The most important thing is that they take decisions quickly starting from the first call to the term sheet within 2 weeks without wasting the founder's time.

Jasveer Singh

Co-Founder

Hood

If you're an early stage founder who is just coming off raising some money, you're probably hiring and iterating towards a product market fit. The team at Eximius will help you with both of these functions.

Nikhil Kurhe

Co-Founder

Finarkein Analytics

From timely feedback on growth ideas to help in hiring tech talent, Eximius has been a great partner throughout. You can bank on them for any help you need in your startup journey :)

Rahul Gope

Co-Founder

Oyela